Governor Jay Nixon donates meat from deer he shot

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is donating the meat from a deer he killed this week to a program that helps feed people in need.

Nixon shot the doe while hunting Monday in south-central Missouri's Pulaski and brought it to Steve-n-Sons Custom Meat Processing in Newburg.

Last year, the state's Share the Harvest program processed and distributed 263,000 pounds of venison donated by deer hunters. Nixon traveled throughout Missouri earlier this month calling attention to the program's expansion over the next three years.

On Wednesday, the governor and his wife, Georganne Wheeler Nixon, plan to be at a food pantry in West Plains to help unload 400 pounds of donated venison.

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